The Lake County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a reported beating and burglary in Painesville Township.
On Tuesday, sheriff’s deputies responded to a call at Madison Avenue Elementary School. Employees told deputies that two women who were not on any authorization lists arrived to pick up a student.
“The women had explained that the student’s father had just been robbed at gunpoint and beaten in his home, and they wanted to make sure the boy was safely taken care of,” said Chief Deputy Frank Leonbruno in a news release.
The school did not release the boy and asked the Sheriff’s Office to investigate.
While heading to the student’s father’s home, the school informed deputies that the father had come to the school and picked up the student. They eventually met up with the man, “who was covered in blood, with numerous lacerations, and swollen areas on his head,” Leonbruno. said
The victim told deputies that earlier Tuesday afternoon, two white males beat him and held his girlfriend at gunpoint at his Madison Avenue home. The victim’s injuries were treated by the Painesville Township Fire Department, Leonbruno said.
Detectives continue to investigate the incident.
“Based on the investigation thus far, this altercation may have been based on a previous relationship that (the victim) was involved in,” Leonbruno said.